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Airboats needed to continue search for two missing pilots
Family and friends of the two pilots missing since a single-engine plane crashed off the coast of Taylor County are seeking volunteers and equipment to help continue looking one week…
COVID-19 sends 31 students home
Five weeks into the 2020-21 school year, the Taylor County School District has announced its first quarantine of a large group of students due to COVID-19. Some 31 students from…
Iron Horse ‘Super Bog’ is slated for Oct. 15-18
When Iron Horse Mud Ranch holds its annual “Super Bog” event on Oct. 15-18, it will mark the largest event to be held in Taylor County since the start of…
County and schools to recognize 3-time Super Bowl champion this fall
By ANTHONY L. WHITE / Contributing columnist Legarrette Blount was living a day that most athletes could only imagine. He was about to step onto the gridiron as a Philadelphia…
County seeks EMS providers
After discussing the future of ambulance service in Taylor County for much of the past year, the Taylor County Commission is now officially seeking a third-party company to take over…
‘Parker served Taylor County’
Longtime political and community leader Rudolph Parker died Monday, Sept. 21. He was 86. Parker served two terms on the Taylor County School Board and one term as county commissioner,…
Driggers named ‘Farm Family of the Year’
Annette Driggers’s deep love of the land is something she learned from her grandparents, Leonard “R.T” and Shelly Mae Sheffield of Shady Grove. “I have just always followed in his…
If you requested a mail ballot, it’s likely on its way
Although the Nov. 3 general election is still weeks away, nearly 3,400 vote-by-mail ballots are being mailed out this week to those who requested them. “Vote by Mail ballots are…
Dock installation is set for October
The much-anticipated installation of new docks at the Steinhatchee public boat ramp is expected to begin early next month, and the ramp is expected to remain open to the public…
Marina to bring Deadman Bay to life
BY DEBRA BUTLER / Columnist Resembling prehistoric Brachiosaurus dinosaurs, they stretch their long necks out over the inlet from atop floating barges, submerge their heads in the water and then…
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